Fire has always gripped our imaginations. To quote Mary Clearman Blew, "It warms us, frightens us, and entertains us." In "Forged in Fire," Blew and coeditor Phil Druker have assembled twenty gifted writers who explore the element from various perspectives.
Living as they do in a state that nearly every summer faces the threat and challenges of wildfire, Idaho writers are exceptionally well equipped to recount firsthand experiences. Featuring essays by both established and novice writers and including two prize-winning stories, "Forged in Fire" covers topics from escaping forest fires...
Fire has always gripped our imaginations. To quote Mary Clearman Blew, "It warms us, frightens us, and entertains us." In "Forged in Fire," Blew an...
Mary Clearman Blew s education began at home, on a remote cattle ranch in Montana. She graduated to a one-room rural school, then escaped, via scholarship, to the University of Montana, where, still in her teens, she met and married her first husband. This Is Not the Ivy League is her account of what it was to be that girl, and then that woman pressured by husband and parents to be the conventional wife of the 1950s, persisting in her pursuit of an education, trailed by a reluctant husband and small children through graduate school, and finally entering the job market with a PhD in...
Mary Clearman Blew s education began at home, on a remote cattle ranch in Montana. She graduated to a one-room rural school, then escaped, via scholar...
The departed men in her life still have plenty to say to Corey. Her father, a legendary rodeo cowboy who punctuated his lifelong pronouncements with a bullet to his head, may be the loudest. But in this story of Montana a story in which the old West meets the new and tradition has its way with just about everyone it is Corey s voice we listen to. In this tour de force of voices big and small, sure and faltering, hers comes across resonant and clear, directing us to the heart of the matter. Winner of the 2008 Western Heritage Award, Jackalope Dreams plays out against the mythology of...
The departed men in her life still have plenty to say to Corey. Her father, a legendary rodeo cowboy who punctuated his lifelong pronouncements with a...
Mary Clearman Blew s education began at home, on a remote cattle ranch in Montana. She graduated to a one-room rural school, then escaped, via scholarship, to the University of Montana, where, still in her teens, she met and married her first husband. This Is Not the Ivy League is her account of what it was to be that girl, and then that woman pressured by husband and parents to be the conventional wife of the 1950s, persisting in her pursuit of an education, trailed by a reluctant husband and small children through graduate school, and finally entering the job market with a PhD in...
Mary Clearman Blew s education began at home, on a remote cattle ranch in Montana. She graduated to a one-room rural school, then escaped, via scholar...
Music, whether a Debussy etude or Gram Parson's "Hickory Wind", has been a constant in Ruby Gervais's life. After Ruby helps fuel a paranoid fervor that spreads like wildfire throughout her rural Montana community, her home life deteriorates. Throughout, Ruby Dreams of Janis Joplin is underscored by the music that forms inextricable bonds between fascinating characters.
Music, whether a Debussy etude or Gram Parson's "Hickory Wind", has been a constant in Ruby Gervais's life. After Ruby helps fuel a paranoid fervor th...
